Barranti Leather Quotes & Sayings

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea
that conserves it; ideas only save races. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the great things about America is we should not judge until we know the facts. — Stanley A. McChrystal

However, in part for reasons of organizational
convenience, modern societies are structured as if all humans had the same sleep requirements; and in many parts of the world there is a satisfying sense of moral rectitude in rising early. The amount of sleep required for buffer dumping would then depend on how much we have both thought and experienced since the last sleep period. — Carl Sagan

I am a German nationalist, that means I am openly committed to my Volkstrum. All of my thoughts and actions belong to it. I am a socialist. I see before me no class or rank, but rather a community of people who are connected by blood, united by language, and subject to the same collective fate. — Adolf Hitler

XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior. — Hetty King

I don't how many of us get to go to the next level, and I don't know how many people on my level get to go to the next level after that. I think it is the songs that can take you there. — Tyler Hilton

It's strange how you never quite get used to the world at night. — Marilynne Robinson

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving. — Stevie Jackson

She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that. — Kimberly Derting

remember how they tracked down that green-eyed Afghan girl? And she's now a leather-faced crone? Because her life went from misery and shit to more monotonous and meaningless misery and shit, while her famous photo went 'round and 'round the world making that McCurry guy famous? I say we do it. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. — Marian Wright Edelman

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. — Daniel Woodrell

I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them. — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes, but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs, who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly, and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country. — David Mixner